Undone

This my pile of unread magazines.

It seems that no matter how much stuff actually gets done … there is always more to do. It’s like digging a hole in the sand with a plastic spoon. It just keeps filling back in. Somehow the stuff I really want to do is always last. Bryon has the same problem. I suspect it’s universal.

Bryon and Grace both helped with a much needed house cleaning marathon today. Things look pretty great right now. It won’t take long before it starts to go downhill and needs to be done all over again.

This was my pile of magazines on the end table in the living room. Bryon has a similar pile of unread hunting magazines in the bedroom. He’s been reading lots of novels lately: Harlen Koben, Robin Cook, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly and Michael Palmer mostly.

The problem of course is time. We have lots of shows we like to watch too. I used to read magazines during the commercials before the days of DVR. Now I don’t even have to watch the commercials thankfully, but the magazines sure do pile up fast.

We haven’t renewed most of our magazine subscriptions but we had a lot more than I realized and we are still receiving issues of most of them. I also love, love, love getting magazines in the mail. Or actually just mail in general. I do, however, think the magazine companies are supremely sneaky the way they constantly send you renewal notices like it’s your last issue. I know I’ve renewed way, way early before because of those notices. Who has the time or inclination to keep a spreadsheet on them all?

I only recently realized you can check out back issues of magazines from the library. That’s brilliant! How have I gone this long not realizing that? Of course they don’t have all of the magazines I like. Honestly, I rarely use much out of any of them. I just like looking at them. And collecting them. And hoarding them.

I’m all for multitasking but your brain can only read one thing at a time no matter how talented you are.

I resisted checking out this website for a long time called Pinterest . It’s sort of like an online magazine without the articles. Just the best stuff you might clip out. It’s chock full of cool ideas in all sorts of categories. Beware though, it’s a huge time suck once you go over to the dark side. They even make you request an “invitation” to join like it’s a big special club or something and you might or might not be accepted.

Of course the last thing I need is something else to fragment my time even further. Most days I feel like Dug, the Talking Dog on Up! dashing off track at the first sign of a squirrel. Watch it here if you haven’t seen it.

I might need an entire “stay home and read magazines” day to catch up.

I suppose there could be much, much worse problems to have, but sometimes all that clutter just adds up and instead of doing something about it, I’d just as soon throw it out and be done with it. There’s definitely something to be said for a clean slate.